Flashback Friday: Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?

Evidence-based medicine may ironically bias medical professionals against the power of dietary intervention.

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This is one of my favorite videos of the year so far. If you’re not familiar with Dr. Esselstyn’s work, I touch on it in:
• Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (
• Cavities & Coronaries: Our Choice (
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (

If you haven’t heard of Pritikin, I introduce him here: Engineering a Cure (
An intro to Dr. Ornish: Convergence of Evidence (
Dr. Burkitt: Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (

Since this video came out in 2014, I published that series on Dr. Kempner’s work:
• Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (
• Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (
• Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (
• Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet? (

And a recent series on lifestyle medicine program that draws its inspiration of these pioneers:
• What Is the Optimal Diet? (
• The Weight Loss Program that Got Better with Time (
• CHIP: The Complete Health Improvement Program (
• A Workplace Wellness Program that Works (

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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Evidence-Biased?